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We all know the song, don't we. The song was originally written by Peggy Lee, and made famous by Dean Martin (lyrics).

I had a mental picture of this image before I set out to make it. I also knew that I wanted this to be a nearly life size panorama, so it meant that I had to work around the limitations of my equipment (6Mp Nikon D40).

This image is actually a stitched panorama of 4 photos. As a result, the competition image could be printed at nearly 60 cm wide, with no visible digital artifacts. The plates were life-size. A stitched panorama was the only way to get an image this size without digital interpolation artifacts with the equipment that I had.

A little hurdle in that the stitching software that I use is 8 bit. So convert all 4 images to jpegs, stitch them together, and then import it into Lightroom so that I can fix the lighting. The pictures were taken using available light coming through a window from camera right. This gave a dramatic light fall off accross the panorama. A simple gradient accross the final image fixed that.

However, something happened on the way to the printer. There was a decided colour shift. I can only assume that creating the panorama clobbered the colour profile, and then Lightroom imposed its own. Luckily, I printed a couple of small images before commiting myself to the big print job.

We're having it framed and we're hanging it on a wall at work.

Result: not even a merit.

PS -- It took an hour and a half to do the washing up after!

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